Political Quotes

Can any man give a reason why Norfolk should not have grown like New York, other than the difference in the institutions of the people?

Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.

Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.

Here the two systems have worked side by side for ages, under such equal circumstances, both political and physical, and with such ample time and opportunity for each to work out its proper effects, that all must admit the experiment to be…